Hi, I'm online again. A week ago, I arrived safely in the U.S. after reporting from the flotilla and being imprisoned by Israel. Today, I have an essay in @thenation reflecting on the experience with a critical account of "partisanship" in journalism. https://t.co/Bra3w278vb

Mike Davis: "What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight."

I’m one of more than 300 writers who have signed a pledge not to write for New York Times Opinion until the paper takes accountability for its role in the genocide of the Palestinian people. The Times has long survived - and thrived - on its claim to be the standard, the

The transactional quality of these kind of things is a way to cover over the anxiety that it’s basically never straightforward to engage with another person’s needs—let alone one’s own.

Model Y Standard & Model 3 Standard are here

One lousy fact of the generalization of clientelism in social work and activism, generally, is that it obscures that a person cannot be helped—and a person cannot help—unless both are sensitive about not knowing how best to do that.

I get this, but as someone who has done “mutual aid” for the unhoused by getting them services, I do think it’s mutual—but not in a transactional way—but in a “you’re gonna help me help you, if yr willing” way, where you do learn something about society and each other together.

🟢 Hamas meets with mediators, demands essential “rights and guarantees” for prisoners and exiled detainees Ultra Palestine reports that a Hamas delegation held intensive meetings over the past two days with Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Cairo and Doha to discuss the

Jeremy Scahill told Democracy Now it is “utter malpractice” for Western media to avoid interviewing Hamas or Islamic Jihad leaders, saying that this refusal leaves Israeli and U.S. allegations unchallenged, turning Palestinians into voiceless, dehumanized caricatures. Speaking

Shocker, a dude who has never published a single good article in his life wants to leave open the opportunity to write for a newspaper with no standards—despite the overwhelmingly obvious possibility of standing in solidarity against a dehumanizing and genocidal outlet.

Jeremy Scahill: “The great Yemeni cartoonist Kamal Sharaf had a piece of art that showed a camera snaked to construction equipment pummeling through the ground, past dead Palestinian bodies, to try to find one Israeli body.” Scahill told Democracy Now the image reflects Gaza’s

You should just brace yourself. It’s inevitable.

A lot of people pivoting around the moral scandal of Palestine—and they will succeed—while not understanding it from a political-economic perspective whatsoever, because they fail to understand the existence of colonialism and the limits of liberalism historically and otherwise.

Mark my words, it will be like it never even happened—that’s what liberalism or so-called progressivism is good for, and not much else besides.

People are gonna kick and scream before they give up “progressive except for Palestine” and, likely, we will get “progressive including Palestine,” but it will mean not reckoning at all with what gave rise to the genocide, and it might even mean not calling it one at all.

⭕️ BREAKING | Israel still blocking tents and mobile homes from entering Gaza for third straight week after ceasefire agreement; Qassam Brigades recover body of another Israeli captive Palestinian search teams, aided by Egyptian heavy machinery, are digging through the ruins of

NB: she was not asked about the relation exactly to genocide apologia, and if she had maybe the repression and cognitive dissonance would smooth out a bit.

Deadly drinking game in this interview if you take a shot every time either one of them says “wait a minute.”

Well someone did exactly this and the outcome was not, erm, ideal—turns out the bottom of the incoherence might be bottomless.

BREAKING: 300+ writers, scholars & public figures refuse to write for the New York Times Opinion section in a collective effort to hold the paper accountable for its role in the genocide in Gaza.

NEW: 300+ writers, scholars and public figures – including almost 150 past New York Times contributors – have committed to refusing to write for the paper’s Opinion section until our the paper 1) addresses it's anti-Palestinian bias, 2) retracts the widely debunked investigation

Well before October 7th, I was once asked by a Times editor to recommend them writers and I said I wouldn’t do their job for them and that I thought their anti-trans coverage was generally a deal-breaker, and I never heard from them again. This is not a reputable paper.